Credits can be entirely passive - someone brings Beyonce your song, she decides to use a bit of it, and you get a check one day - to actively working alongside the talent in the studio. There’s quite a spectrum of roles to play. On the songwriter-heavy “Alien Superstar,” non-sample artists include prominent vocal arranger Atia Boggs p/k/a Ink the ultra-hot Nova Wav songwriting duo of Brittany Coney and Denisia “Blu June” Andrews (with credit on eight “Renaissance” songs) the 57-year-old synthesizer and audio mixing wizard MIKE DEAN and even Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z, billed on the record as S. Nowadays there are beat gurus, sampling scholars, hook doctors, lyrics wizards, instrument aces and a whole host of people whose talents are being curated by, for the most part, Beyonce herself – the only individual with a writing credit on each of “Renaissance’s” 16 songs.

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